Kenneth Anger

Kenneth Anger

  • Birthday: 1927-02-03
  • Deathday: 2023-05-11
  • Place of birth: Santa Monica, California, USA
  • Also know as: ケネス・アンガー

Biography

Kenneth Anger (born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemeyer; February 3, 1927 - May 11, 2023) was an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor and author. Working exclusively in short films, he produced almost forty works since 1937, nine of which in particular have been grouped together as the "Magick Lantern Cycle," and form the basis of Anger's reputation as one of the most influential independent filmmakers in cinema history. His films variously merge surrealism with homoeroticism and the occult, and have been described as containing "elements of erotica, documentary, psychodrama, and spectacle." Anger himself has been described as "one of America's first openly gay filmmakers, and certainly the first whose work addressed homosexuality in an undisguised, self-implicating manner," and his "role in rendering gay culture visible within American cinema, commercial or otherwise, is impossible to overestimate." Some of his particularly homoerotic works, such as Fireworks (1947) and Scorpio Rising (1964), were produced prior to the legalisation of homosexuality in the United States. He has also focused upon occult themes in many of his films, being fascinated by the notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley, and is a follower of Crowley's religion, Thelema. This influence is evident from films like Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954), Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969) and Lucifer Rising (1972). Anger has described filmmakers such as Auguste and Louis Lumière and Georges Méliès as influences, and has been cited as an important influence on later film directors like Martin Scorsese, David Lynch and John Waters.He has also been described as having "a profound impact on the work of many other filmmakers and artists, as well as on music video as an emergent art form using dream sequence, dance, fantasy, and narrative." During the 1960s and 70s he associated and worked with a number of different figures in popular culture and the occult, including Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey, sexologist Alfred Kinsey, artist Jean Cocteau, playwright Tennessee Williams and musicians Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page and Marianne Faithfull. He is also the author of the controversial best seller Hollywood Babylon (1959) and its sequel Hollywood Babylon II (1986), in which he claims to expose many of the rumours and secrets of Hollywood celebrities. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenneth Anger, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Filmography

Production

Invocation of My Demon Brother

1969

As Director of Photography

Scorpio Rising

1969

As Director of Photography

Rabbit's Moon

1971

As Director of Photography

Eaux d'artifice

1953

As Director of Photography

The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome

1954

As Director of Photography

Kustom Kar Kommandos

1965

As Director of Photography

Magick Lantern Cycle

2019

As Cinematography

Lucifer Rising

1974

As Director

Fireworks

1947

As Director

Eaux d'artifice

1953

As Director

Kustom Kar Kommandos

1965

As Director

Puce Moment

1949

As Director

Scorpio Rising

1969

As Director

Rabbit's Moon

1971

As Director

The Man We Want to Hang

2002

As Director

Magick Lantern Cycle

2019

As Director

My Surfing Lucifer

2007

As Director

Anger Sees Red

2004

As Director

Mouse Heaven

2004

As Director

Ich will!

2008

As Director

Brush of Baphomet

2009

As Director

Airships 1, 2, 3

2013

As Director

Tinsel Tree

1942

As Director

Senators in Bondage

1976

As Director

Hollywood Babylon

2000

As Director

Uniform Attraction

2008

As Director

I'll Be Watching You

2007

As Director

Foreplay

2008

As Director

Elliott's Suicide

2007

As Director

Escape Episode

1947

As Director

Rabbit's Moon

1979

As Director

Prisoner of Mars

1942

As Director

Missoni

2010

As Director

The Nest

1943

As Director

Technicolor Skull

0000

As Director

42 One Dream Rush

2010

As Director

Death

0000

As Director

Lucifer Rising

1974

As Editor

Senators in Bondage

1976

As Editor

Fireworks

1947

As Editor

Puce Moment

1949

As Editor

Eaux d'artifice

1953

As Editor

Scorpio Rising

1969

As Editor

Kustom Kar Kommandos

1965

As Editor

Rabbit's Moon

1971

As Editor

Magick Lantern Cycle

2019

As Editor

Senators in Bondage

1976

As Producer

Eaux d'artifice

1953

As Producer

Puce Moment

1949

As Producer

Lucifer Rising

1974

As Producer

Fireworks

1947

As Writer

Puce Moment

1949

As Writer

Anger Sees Red

2004

As Writer

Senators in Bondage

1976

As Writer

Scorpio Rising

1969

As Writer

Prisoner of Mars

1942

As Writer

Kustom Kar Kommandos

1965

As Writer

Rabbit's Moon

1971

As Writer

Hollywood Babylon

1972

As Novel

Magick Lantern Cycle

2019

As Writer

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